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Often Quotes by Andre Gide
- Often with good sentiments we produce bad literature.
- Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves.
- I advise the young to tell themselves constantly that most often it is up to them alone.
- Most often it happens that one attributes to others only the feelings of which one is capable oneself.
- The anxiety we have for the figure we cut, for our personage, is constantly cropping out. We are showing off and are often more concerned…
- The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious.
- It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the…
- The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions.
- The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are,…
- In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I…
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